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File photo of the UN Security Council meeting in New York on February 26, 2020. (AFP)

The world must sue China

The pandemic will hopefully encourage nations to look at reform of the UN system and act against China's irresponsible...

13 April 2020 3:59 PM IST

RSS volunteers pack food for distribution to people laid off during the current nationwide lockdown in old Lucknow on April 10, 2020. (PTI)

Waqyanavis: Back to the chaddis, boys

Because if you do good deeds wearing trousers, no one thinks you're the RSS

13 April 2020 1:04 AM IST

Migrant workers set out for their villages during the ongoing coronavirus lockdown in India. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

By ignorantly accusing the Markaz, we may be unwittingly blaming the...

'Markaz' is a word that means 'Centre', and is often used as short form for markazi hakumat

13 April 2020 12:27 AM IST

A homeless man eats his lunch in front of a wall painting extolling the glory of India. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Sujatha Surepally: What be charity but an old feudal measure to...

Free lunches won't keep the migrant worker from wanting to go home and start over

12 April 2020 10:17 PM IST

File photo of prime minister Narendra Modi chairing a meeting of the National Disaster Management Authority in New Delhi in 2018. (PIB)

Saikat Datta: Why we lurch from one disaster to another

We have no institutional memory of what worked and what didn't in past crises

11 April 2020 11:16 PM IST

Might the conspirators have reckoned without the philanthropist?

Farrukh Dhondy: Heard any good conspiracy theories lately?

The one that's gone viral is that big pharmaceutical companies have spread this virus through the agency of The Dark...

11 April 2020 7:13 PM IST

Joe Biden (left) and Bernie Sanders greet each other with a safe elbow bump before a Democratic Party presidential debate in Washington on March 15, 2020. Sanders has suspended his presidential campaign, clearing the way for rival Joe Biden to become the Democratic nominee to challenge Donald Trump in November. (AFP)

AA Edit: It's Don versus Joe & Corona

Biden has much work to do if he is to capture the imagination of the youth as Sanders did

11 April 2020 5:53 PM IST

Bags containing essential supplies kept ready for distribution to people at te Uttarahalli Government School in Bengaluru on Saturday. (DC Photo: Satish. B)

AA Edit: Recession is upon us; cash transfers are the way forward

When there is a risk of demand dying, the government must put the economy on a ventilator

11 April 2020 4:44 PM IST

This is Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath following social distancing while holding a meeting with his staff but before that he was all set to disregard national directives on avoiding mass meetings. (PTI)

Anand K. Sahay: Divisiveness, impunity hurts anti-Covid battle

Instead of uniting in the face of peril, we have bowed to pseudo religion and its accomplice pseudo-science

10 April 2020 11:50 PM IST

A boy and a girl roam in a deserted street during the current coronavirus lockdown in New Delhi. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Is the world all set to experience a Coronaissance'?

The Great Bubonic Plague primed Europe for the Renaissance

10 April 2020 8:43 PM IST

Hydroxychloroquine has suddenly emerged into the strategy to tackle the current Covid-19 pandemic. It is yet unproven in scientific studies but Dr Donald Trump is sure its the cure. (AP)

AA Edit: The Nobel Prize for medicine men

Whoever gets the Prize for peace, no strongman will get it for medicine or economics

10 April 2020 6:03 PM IST

A boy grimaces as a nasal swab is taken to check for Covid-19 infection in Ahmedabad on April 10, 2020. (AP)

AA Edit: The lockdown is fine, but step up the testing

The examples of Bhilwara and Kerala indicate that aggressive testing is the key to defeating the coronavirus

10 April 2020 5:12 PM IST